Appeal court overturns ruling directing Ottawa to repatriate 4 men detained in Syria
In January, Federal Court Justice Henry Brown ruled the four men were entitled to have the federal government make a formal request for their release "as soon as reasonably possible."Ottawa asks court to dismiss ruling directing it to repatriate 4 men detained in Syria
"[The previous ruling] took the right of Canadian citizens 'to enter … Canada' and transformed it into a right of Canadian citizens, wherever they might be, regardless of their conduct abroad, to return to Canada or to have their government take steps to rescue them and return them to Canada," Wednesday's ruling says.
"There is no evidence any of them have been tried or convicted, let alone tried in a manner recognized or sanctioned by international law." "Canadian state conduct did not lead to the respondents being in northeastern Syria, did not prevent them from entering Canada, and did not cause or continue their plight. The respondents' own conduct and persons abroad who have control over them alone are responsible," the ruling reads.
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